From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 03:01:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3672B16A4A0 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:01:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nathanw@uchicago.edu) Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1610513C428 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:01:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nathanw@uchicago.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([71.243.84.150]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JB400ASZB1H0N7C@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:00:53 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:00:52 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <17815.8717.493433.495190@bhuda.mired.org> To: Mike Meyer Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <32d8477c0612301410q2aaf9d39k859d242739554fd6@mail.gmail.com> <20061231003901.GA76688@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <3AE0FE6A-EA8A-44A0-98A5-E2D7E28BC38A@uchicago.edu> <17815.8717.493433.495190@bhuda.mired.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386_set_ldt and wine on AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:01:06 -0000 It builds, but has interesting bugs. We use it on a printing system that processes 4000 jobs a day, and so even rare problems show up fast. GNU Ghostscript, on amd64, turns some fonts into chinese characters on some documents, GPL Ghostscript occasionally makes them 1 pt high, and AFPL ghostscript seg faults at random. On i386, all these problems go away. -Nathan On Dec 30, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <3AE0FE6A-EA8A-44A0-98A5-E2D7E28BC38A@uchicago.edu>, Nathan > Whitehorn typed: >> One thing you can do (I had to do this for ghostscript, which is >> broken on amd64) > > No, it isn't: > > bhuda% file /usr/opt/bin/gs > /usr/opt/bin/gs: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 > (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.1 (601104), dynamically linked (uses > shared libs), for FreeBSD 6.1 (601104), stripped > bhuda% pkg_info -W /usr/opt/bin/gs > /usr/opt/bin/gs was installed by package ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15 > > I'm mostly using it as a printer driver, but ghostview hasn't given me > any problems either. > > Maybe one of the dependencies that my options didn't pick up that > yours did is broken. Or maybe you tried one of other ghostscript ports > instead. Or maybe you tried it when the port was broken (that got me > with openoffice - the tarball the port grabbed by default was > corrupt). But ghostscript has always built on amd64 with no problems > for me. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more > information.